All purpose Sales and Sales Rumours and Anecdotes [2023 Edition]

[GhostofWar]

This is not online games but single player games. They wanted to do a spider verse multiplayer game but the game is cancelled.

There was a multiplayer ambitions slide in the leaks that listed online games.

https://imgur.com/47mUZFx

https://imgur.com/a/irLOlE2

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Leak of first party sales on PS4 and PS5, crazy sales for Bloodborne 7.64 millions. Sales until end if february 2022.

Those digital sales lower than I was expecting!

 

[JPT]

I liked Resistance, especially R2 and its bunch of modes, so would be interesting to see what they could come up with.
Even if the Spiderverse game is cancelled, that track shows multiplayer architecture, so that tech might still be alive/developed, even though the game got cancelled.

 

[techuse]

Those playstation numbers are staggering. No wonder companies allocate minimal budget to PC versions. Insomniac game production costs are pretty reasonable. Wonder if those numbers are similar for Sony big games in general.

 

[chris1515]

PlayStation sales and blockbuster games propel console market back to growth

Sony outsells Microsoft’s Xbox and Nintendo’s Switch as sector recovers from post-pandemic slump

www.ft.com

Sony said they sold 50 million sPs5 until 9 th december 2023

EDIT:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/sony-highlights-ps5-momentum-hardware-sales-top-50-million-2023-12-20/

"Given the momentum we've had in November and a lot of what we're seeing in December, just in general we're feeling very good about sales overall," said Eric Lempel, senior vice president for global marketing, sales and business operations at Sony Interactive Entertainment

Nonetheless, Lempel said the latest Black Friday sales period helped make it the biggest November for PlayStation sales, when measured by both units and revenues, in Sony’s almost 30-year history in gaming.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1737465375187460264

EDIT2:

PlayStation 5 Achieves Milestone of 50 Million Units Sold to Consumers - Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) today announced the PlayStation 5 console (PS5) has surpassed 50 million units1 sold through to consumers, three years since its Nov. 2020 launch. Thanks to the support of PlayStation fans globally, the PS5 console has experienced strong momentum this year...

sonyinteractive.com

Official press release

 

[chris1515]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1737511204913131638

It seems sales accelerate for PS5 in December in US.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Those digital sales lower than I was expecting!

About where I'd expect them to be considering it's been widely reported that digital sales are a significantly higher proportion of game sales on Xbox than on PlayStation. That would help explain why MLB the Show 2021 has such a high digital sales ratio. It was the first multiplatform MLB the Show game.

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves also shows why publishers greatly prefer digital over physical.

• 569k sell-in vs 329k sell through.
• 249k physical units that were manufactured but were unable to be sold.
• ~82.25k physical units actually sold (25% of sell-through)

A prime example of costs that aren't recouped if you incorrectly predict how many physical copies are going to sell. Many times, when you see publishers say X title failed to sell to expectations, you can bet they likely have a huge stockpile of unsold physical copies of the game because they incorrectly predicted how many would sell. Thus they now have a potentially large stockpile of waste and unrecoverable sunk costs.

Also, looking at the chart you can see that over time sales are slowly moving over from physical to digital. I'd imagine that the digital share is even higher for FY2022.

Regards,
SB

 

[pharma]

Steam reveals the best-selling and most-played PC games of 2023 - KitGuru

Steam has recently released its

www.kitguru.net

Top sellers, best-selling new releases, most-played games on PC, most-played games on Steam Deck, highest-grossing early access games, most-played with a gamepad, and best-selling VR titles are among the categories. It's a nice glimpse of the games Steam users played the most this year, and it serves as a reminder that titles that seem to be on the decline still have a lot of active players.

It's worth noting that Steam did not score the games in each category but instead examined data from January 1st, 2023, to December 15th, 2023, to make the list.

Top Sellers (highest gross revenue during 2023)

Apex Legends
Baldur's Gate 3
Call of Duty (MW III, Warzone, MW II)
Counter-Strike 2
Cyberpunk 2077
Destiny 2
Dota 2
Hogwarts Legacy
Lost Ark
PUBG: Battlegrounds
Sons of the Forest
Starfield

New Releases (most revenue during first two weeks of launch)

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
Baldur's Gate 3
Cities: Skylines II
EA Sports FC 24
Hogwarts Legacy
Payday 3
Remnant II
Resident Evil 4 (remake)
Sons of the Forest
Starfield
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Street Fighter 6

Most Played (highest peak concurrent player counts)

Apex Legends
Baldur's Gate 3
Counter-Strike 2
Destiny 2
Dota 2
Goose Goose Duck
Hogwarts Legacy
Lost Ark
PUBG: Battlegrounds
Sons of the Forest
Starfield

Early Access (highest gross revenue before and after launching version 1.0 in 2023)

Against the Storm
Baldur's Gate 3
Dave the Diver
Demonologist
Disney Dreamlight Valley
Everspace 2
Farlight 84
Marvel Snap
My Time at Sandrock
Ready or Not
Sun Haven
Wartales

Steam Deck (most played games based on daily active player counts in 2023)

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
Baldur's Gate 3
Cyberpunk 2077
Dave the Diver
Elden Ring
Half-Life
Hogwarts Legacy
Grand Theft Auto V
Resident Evil 4 (remake)
Starfield
Vampire Survivors
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Controller (most played with a gamepad)

Apex Legends
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
Call of Duty (MW III, Warzone, MW II)
EA Sports FC 24
Elden Ring
FIFA 23
Hogwarts Legacy
NBA 2K23
Resident Evil 4 (remake)
Rocket League
Starfield
Street Fighter 6

VR (highest revenue)

Beat Saber
Blade & Sorcery
Bonelab
Boneworks
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2
Ghosts of Tabor
Gorilla Tag
Half-Life: Alyx
Into the Radius VR
Pavlov
VTOL VR

 

[chris1515]

The PlayStation ultimate review 2023 | This Month on PlayStation

Discover the biggest and best of PlayStation in 2023, including the best new PS4 and PS5 games, most interesting characters, cool new hardware and more.

www.playstation.com

This is not sales but this is the most played games of 2023 on Playstation console. Mostly f2p, South Korea is the only country without any f2p in top 3.

Africa

South Africa

1, Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Call of Duty


East Asia


Japan

1.Apex Legends
2.Genshin Impact
3.Fortnite


South Korea

1.Diablo IV
2.EA Sports FIFA 23
3.Elden Ring


Europe

Finland

1.Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Call of Duty

France

1.Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Call of Duty

Germany

1.Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Call of Duty

Republic of Ireland

1.Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Call of Duty

Italy

1.Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Grand Theft Auto V

Netherlands

1.Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Call of Duty:registered:

Poland

1.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
2.Fortnite
3.Grand Theft Auto V

Spain

1.Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Call of Duty

Sweden

1.Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Call of Duty

United Kingdom

1.Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Call of Duty

Middle East

Saudi Arabia

1.Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Grand Theft Auto V

UAE

1.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
2.Fortnite
3.Grand Theft Auto V

North America

Canada

1.Fortnite
2.Call of Duty
3.Grand Theft Auto V

Mexico

1.Fortnite
2.Call of Duty
3.EA SPORTS FIFA 23

USA

1. Fortnite
2.Call of Duty
3.Grand Theft Auto V


Oceania


Australia

1.Fortnite
2.Call of Duty
3.EA SPORTS FIFA 23

New Zealand

1.Fortnite
2.Grand Theft Auto V
3.Call of Duty

South America

Argentina

1.Fortnite
2.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
3.Rocket League

Brazil

1.EA Sports FIFA 23
2.Fortnite
3.Grand Theft Auto V

Colombia

1.EA SPORTS FIFA 23
2.Fortnite
3.Call of Duty

 

[Johnny Awesome]

Easy to see why MS bought ABK in all the latest data.